The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-02
FOrt-Street Church.

The resignation of the Rev. j. A.
Cruzan was accepted at his urgent re-
quest, at the annual meeting. A COM
mittee appointed to draft an expression
of the feeling of the church has pre-
scented the following report:
WHEREAS, Rev. John A. Cruzan has
rendered the resignation of his office as
Pastor of the Fort-street Church, Homo
lulu, Hawaiian Islands, and the church
and society, have, with regret accepted
the same, they desire to and do hereby
put upon record the following as an ex-
preston of their regard, and of the appre-
citation they have of the character of their
pastor and of the value of the services he
has rendered to this church and people.
AS a preacher of the Gospel of our
Lord, Mr.. Cruzan has miniStered most ac-
ceptably to this people for six years, and
during that time he has been an earnest
and faithful expositOr OF the word OF God;
an able and eloquent advocate of every in
terest and principle relating to the relig-
ious and moral welfare and good of this
country he has fearlessly exposed and re-
buked public evils, while he has dealt ten
community; and especial mention should
be made of the vigor, energy and wisdom
with which he has labored in the interest
of temperance reform, and of the pre-emi-
nent success which has attended b is work
in this direction.
In his efforts to heIpfully reach and win
the young people he has labored most eff
fectually, and the numerous additions
from this class to the church, as well as
the large and active Society of Christian
Endeayor, are among the trophies OF his
ministry here.
And this church recalls with gratitude
the constant and sustained activity put
forth on his. part to reach the neglected
classes of this city, striving to draw and
keep them within the influence of the Cos
pei And in this connection it would bear
glad testimony to the high esteem and
honor in which Mr.. Cruzan has been held
during these years by all classes of people,
winning their confidence and favor and
known to all as manly man as truly as
a minister of Christ in all his intercourse
and conversation with them.
In the more personal and delicate office
of Pastor, we shall always remember that
| with tender love he has ministered to US
in the Gospel in our joys and in our sor-
rows. He has baptized our children, he
has solemnized our marriages, ministered
/ to our sick has buried our dead and COM
forted our bereaved, and always with such
genuine sympathy and love as to win us
to himself. His presence in our homes has
always been a welcome one, and our chill
dren will lose personal friend as truly as
will their parents. And we cannot re-
| frain from including here an expression of
the love and admiration of this people for
Mrs. Cruzan, who has so lovingly and ten
derby added her ministrations and labOrs
to those of her husband, and of express
ing the deep and heartfelt regret and sense
of loss which this community feels as
truly in losing her as her husband.
| In parting, we shall bid them God-speed
and pray that the Almighty Father may
continue His favoring blessing towards
them, and that wherever He shall call
them to labor in His service, they may
reap an increasingly abundant harvest fer
their Master.
w. G. MERRITT,
WILLIAM r. CASTLE,
CHAs. r. BISHOP,
w. G.. PARKE,
Committee of Church and Society.